ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 19 December 1927, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

GRAND THEATRE, T-O-NIGHT. “THE SAVAGE. ” “The Savage,” a Pirst National picture featuring Ben Lyon and May McAvoy, opens to-night at the Grand Ij; g 3,11’C • In this picture is everything one can possibly want in a motion picture. There are thrills, love story, laughs by the score, beautiful women, perfectly marvelous settings, and Ben Lyon gives one of the best performances of his screen career. May McAvoy is admirably east and gives a splendid characterisation, and the other players could not have been more wisely chosen. Sam Hardy, as the managing editor of a scientific magazine, is immense. Charlotte Walker, as a wife who believes the wife should be the better ninety-five per cent., could not be excelled. Philo MdC olio ugh is an excellent “heavy” and Tom Maguire apparently was born to -play the role of the hen-pecked scientist husband of Charlotte Walker. Most of the story is laid in the South Seas, and theTe are gome unusually fine jungle scenes in which Ben Lyon dashes about garbed in Only a goat skin. He even rides on the back of a pre-liistoric brontosaurus. To tell the plot always spoils a story, so we will only say that Ben is sent to the South Seas to’plhy the part, of a white savage and be discovered by a party of scientists so that they may be exposed and made a laughing stock of. Pred Newmeyer is to be complimented for some excellent direction. COMIC OPERA FOR H-AWERA. “RUDDIGORE,” TO-NIGHT. General satisfaction has been ex. pressed at the notification that the J. 0. Williamson -Comic Opera Company will appear in the Gilbert and Sullivan opera “Ruddigorc at Hawera to-night. “Rud'digore” is described as one of the most attractive and diverting of the entrancing operas composed by the wonderful pair. The -story deals with the strange experience's of the bold Baron Murgatroyd, v r ho is distressed by his obligation to commit at least one drime per day, and who adopts many ingenious but fruitless methods to escape from this thraldom. The ghosts of his ancestors, anxious to uphold the family traditions, objected to this weakness on the part of the reel cant knight, and in a wonderfully specateular scene in -the second act emerge from their portraits. A charming love story is interwoven. “Ruddigore” will only be staged for one night. The company is a particularly strong one and includes such highclass artists aS Strella AVilson, j .Tames Hav, Charles Walenn, Joliran Ralston, Patti Russell, Winifred Williamson, and Bernard Manning, John Byrne, and many other J. C. Williamson favourites. The orchestra is a particularly good or,e, and is under the able conductorship of Gustave Stapoffski,